Filter a vector of strings based on string matching

Question

I have the following vector:

X <- c(\"mama.log\", \"papa.log\", \"mimo.png\", \"mentor.log\")

How do I retrieve another vector that only

Answer 1

Using pipes...

library(tidyverse)

c("mama.log", "papa.log", "mimo.png", "mentor.log") %>%
 .[grepl("^m.*\\.log$", .)]
[1] "mama.log"   "mentor.log"